EPI 100: Principles of Epidemiology 

Summer Session A, June 23 - July 30, 2009

Guide to Course Material
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We still have a several students who received "incomplete" grades and thus need to take a make-up exam.  Hence the final examinations will not be available for review until Winter Quarter, 2010.  Information about grading is posted immediately below and far below (see end of "Lecture" section).  The individual grades have been posted on URSA.
EPI 100 Makeup Exam, Dec. 5, 2009; OPTION 1: 9:00-11:30 am, OPTION 2: 9:00 am to Noon; Rm. 71-257 CHS.
You must have Acrobat Reader to read and print the course material (it's free).  

Course outline, test options, grade cutpoint, and final examination: (click below) 

Epidemiology 100 Summer Session A, 2009 - Course Outline (pdf file, 7/12/09)

EPI 100 grading options for Final Exam (ID order: Option, Q 1-5, highest 4; post-Noon, 7/29/09)

EPI 100 anticipated Final Grade cutpoints (PPT, 7/20/09)

EPI 100 Final course grading information (8/1/09)

Lecture outlines:

The lecture outlines for the coming session (click ) will be available prior to the lecture.  Please print the outlines and bring them to class for taking of notes.  There will be no lecture outlines distributed in class.  The green section is open to everyone, while the red section is restricted to those enrolled in EPI 100, Summer, 2009.
Lecture Date Printable Adobe PDF
Posted* Session Topic
PDF

1

 6/13/09

6/23/09

 Introduction 

2

 6/13/09 6/23/09 History of Epidemiology
3 6/19/08 6/24/09 Transmission of Infectious Diseases
4-5 Measuring Occurrence of Disease 
6 6/26/09 6/30/09 Standardization of Rates and Ratios
  7/2/09   Supplementary material on standardization (by Nguyen Nguyen)
7 6/26/09 7/1/09 Measurement and Errors of Measurement (1) (edited 7/2/09)
8 6/26/09 7/2/09 Measurement and Errors of Measurement (2)
9 7/5/09 7/8/09 Natural History of Disease
10 7/5/09 7/9/09 Study Designs (experiments)
11-12 7/12/09 7/14/09 Further Issues with Randomized Trials (edited 7/13/09)
13 7/12/09 7/15/09 Study Designs (cohort) (edited 7/25/09)
14 7/12/09 Study Designs (cross-sectional) (edited 7/3/09)
15 7/12/09 7/16/09 Study Designs (case-control) (edited 7/25/09)
16 7/14/09 7/21/09 Measures of Causal Associations (1)
17 7/14/09 7/22/09 Measures of Causal Associations (2)
18 7/14/09 Measures of Causal Associations (3)
19 7/14/09 7/23/09 Criteria for Assessing Causation
20 7/25/09 7/28/09 Confounding
21 7/25/09 7/29/09 Investigating an Acute Outbreak

*may upgrade following the lecture if corrections are needed

 Lectures (sight and sound):

The slide presentations for the lectures (click ) will be posted once corrections are made following the classroom presentation, usually the following morning.  You must have Microsoft Internet Explorer (its free) or its equivalent to see and hear the material.  For the sound presentations, you will need to open the website twice: 1) for the PPT lecture, and 2) for the sound files that go with the PPT slides (click for WMA (i.e., Windows Media Audio) files used by Microsoft's Internet Explorer or for MP3 files used by most audio players).  Then you need to synchronize the timing of the PPT and sound files.  Alternatively, you can transfer the MP3 files to an audio player for listening independent of the PPT slides.   

Session
Date
 Powerpoint Presentation*

Sound
Topic PPT Slides WMA MP3

1

 6/23/09

Lect 1: Introduction
1-6
7-17
18-28
29-39
Lect 2: History of Epidemiology
40-58
59-73
2
 6/24/09 Lect 3: Transmission of Infectious Diseases 74-81
82-88
89-99
100-105
106-115
116-118
3 6/25/09 Lect 4: Measuring Occurrence of Disease (1) 119-132
133-144
145-159
160-170
Lect 5a: Measuring Occurrence of Disease (2) - A 171-190
4 6/30/09 Lect 5b: Measuring Occurrence of Disease (2) - B 191-198
199-207
208-215

Lect 6a: Standardization of Rates and Ratios - A

216-229
230-241
5 7/1/09

Lect 6b: Standardization of Rates and Ratios - B

242-248
249-256
257-263
264-272

Lect 7a: Measurement and Errors of Meas. (1) - A

273-294
6 7/2/09

Lect 7b: Measurement and Errors of Meas. (1) - B

 295-309
310-318
319-329
330-341

The access code was changed on Monday, July 6, 2009, Enrolled students were notified via email.

7 7/7/09

Lect 8a: Measurement and Errors of Meas. (2) - A

 342-355
356-359
360-366
367-377
378-385
8 7/8/09 Lect 8b: Measurement and Errors of Meas. (2) - B 386-391
392-395

Lect 9a: Natural History of Disease - A

 396-402
403-418
419-430
9 7/9/09 Lect 9b: Natural History of Disease - B 431-434
435-441
442-447

Lect 10a: Study Designs (Experiments) - A

 448-460
461-466
467-478
10 7/14/09 Lect 10b: Study Designs (Experiments) - B 479-489

Lect 11: Further Issues with Randomized Trials (1)

 490-501
502-507
Lect 12a: Further Issues with Randomized Trials (2) - A 508-517
518-524
11 7/15/09 Lect 12b: Further Issues with Randomized Trials (2) - B 525-535
Lect 13: Study Designs (cohort) 536-544
545-552
553-559
560-565
12 7/16/09 Lect 14a Study Designs (cross-sectional) 566-588
589-599

Lect 15a: Study Designs (case-control) - A

 600-608
609-619
13 7/21/09 Lect 15b: Study Designs (case-control) - B 620-627
628-636
637-644
645-652
Lect 16a: Measures of causal association (1) - A 653-665
14 7/22/09 Lect 16b: Measures of causal association (1) - B 666-677
678-686
Lect 17: Measures of causal association (2) 687-697
698-706
Lect 18a: Measures of causal association (3) - A 707-712
15 7/23/09

Lect 18b: Measures of causal association (3) - B

 713-717
718-726
727-742
Lect 19: Criteria for assessing causation 743-754
755-778
16 7/28/09

Lect 20: Confounding

 779-793
794-803
804-811
17 7/29/09 Lect 21: Investigating an acute outbreak 812-825
826-846
847-858
   

End of Course Lecture Material

     
-- 8/1/09 Final examination scores and course grades

Discussions (sight only):

The slide presentations for the quizzes (click ) will be posted following the classroom presentation, usually the following morning.  The answers are presented on the last slide so that Option 2 students can self-evaluate along the way.  The discussions are meant to supplement the course material, offering insights on the history of epidemiology and the quizzes.  The "hot headlines" are not covered in the quizzes or Final Exam, but rather are intended only for your interest and enjoyment.

Discussion Date Powerpoint Presentation
Topic PPT

1

 7/01/09 Posting of Quiz 1 (answers on last slide)
2 7/08/09 Posting of Quiz 2 (answers on last slide)
3 7/16/09 Posting of Quiz 3 (answers on last slide)
4 7/22/09 Posting of Quiz 4 (answers on last slide)
5 7/29/09 Posting of Quiz 5 (answers on last slide)
For enjoyment (8/1/09) Hot headlines presented in class (not included in tests)

Past Quizzes (Option 1 Students):

Following suggestions of earlier students, the quiz questions that were used in past years for Option 1 students are posted as PDF files (click ), along with the answers on the last page of each section.  The questions are organized according to chapter in the 2008 Gordis text, although many were created based on the 2004 or 2000 editions of the Gordis book. There are also review questions at the back of most chapters in the Gordis book.  The course Teaching Assistant, Nguyen Nguyen, will be available from 5-6 pm each class day (i.e., T, W, Th) in Rm. 23-105 to address these questions and related issues.  Students having concerns or inquires should come to class and discuss them with the TA. Past quiz questions or review questions in Gordis will not be addressed via email.

Chapter Posted Printable Adobe PDF
Topic PDF

1

 6/18/09 Introduction
2 6/18/09 The Dynamics of Disease
3 6/18/09 Measuring the Occurrence of Disease: I. Morbidity
4 6/25/09 Measuring the Occurrence of Disease: II. Mortality (edited 7/2/09)
5 6/25/09 Assessing the Validity and Reliability of Diagnostic and Screening Tests
6 6/29/09 The Natural History of Disease: Ways of Expressing Prognosis
7 6/29/09 Assessing the Efficacy of Preventive and Therapeutic Measures: Randomized Trials
8 7/9/09 Randomized Trials: Some Further Issues
9 7/9/09 Cohort Studies
10 7/9/09 Case-Control Studies and Other Study Designs
11 7/14/09 Estimating Risk: Is there an Association?
12 7/14/09 More on Risk:  Estimating the Potential for Prevention
13 7/14/09 A Pause for Review: Comparing Cohort and Case-Control Studies
14 7/14/09 From Association to Causation: Deriving Inferences from Epidemiologic Studies
END OF QUIZZES IN 2009 (Ch. 15 has some questions useful for the Final Exam)
15 7/25/09 More on Causal Inferences: Bias, Confounding and Interaction